Hippokratic exegete (Gale ̄n, In Hipp. Aph. 4.49 [17B.750–51 K.] = fr.209); (c) the botanist
who described clover (Seruius, Ad Geor. 1.215 = fr.302); or, most likely according to
Tecusan 2004: 55–56, (d) the Dionusios listed by P (1.ind.4, 8, 10–17, 27, 31,
33 – 36 = fr.256) as a foreign medical authority. Pliny’s Dionusios recommended turnips for
joint pains (20.18–19 = fr.258), believed that eating parsley caused sterility and epilepsy
in suckling infants (20.112–114 = fr.259), and wrote on the correct preparation and
dangers of orache (20.219 = fr.260), and the properties and benefits of asphodel (22.67
= fr.61). Pliny’s Methodist is probably identical to Seruius’ botanist, but it is unclear
how many medical Dionusioi Pliny may have cited. Cf. D (M.) and
D ( M?).
Tecusan (2004) 53–59.
GLIM
Dionusios, Sallustius (100 BCE – 75 CE)
P describes his cure for toothache or loose teeth: eat a frog boiled in vinegar; to the
weak of stomach, he instead offered frog-saliva brewed in vinegar (1.ind.31, 32.80–81).
RE 5.1 (1903) 976 (#131), M. Wellmann.
PTK and GLIM
Dionusios, son of Diogene ̄s (ca 210 – 90 BCE?)
Credited by M 1.4 with determining the circumference of the Earth, and finding
a value agreeing with that of E.
RE 5.1 (1903) 992 (#145), Fr. Hultsch.
PTK
Dionusios son of Kallipho ̄n (ca 100 – 87 BCE)
Greek, possibly Athenian, geographer, author of a description (anagraphe ̄) of Greece in
trimetric iambics addressed to an unknown Theophrastos and written ca 100 – 87 BCE. Earl-
ier attributed to D, the poem revealed the author’s name and epithet in the
acrostics of verses 1–23. The work adheres to the periplous form, describing coast-lines,
giving distances measured in stades and sailing days, and using specific terminology of
relative positions of sites and of toponymy. Dionusios’ sources were Phile ̄tas, an unknown
Athenian historian, Apollodo ̄ros of Athens, and A E. Manifesting
some Stoic tendencies, the extant 150 verses describe western and central Greece, Crete
and the Aegean islands.
Ed.: GGM 1.238–243; D. Marcotte, Le poème géographique de Dionysios fils de Calliphon (1990).
Daniela Dueck
Dionusios son of Oxumakhos (300 – 250 BCE)
Cited by R E, Onom. Anthr. Mor. 205–208 (pp. 162–163 DR), as having
coined the term epanthismos (used by E A for “vein”), which
Dionusios used for a “vein-like vessel” (distinguished from both vein and artery: i.e., after
P). This Dionusios is perhaps contemporary, and thus possibly identical, with
DIONUSIOS, SALLUSTIUS